Pros
Benefits are good Hire from within Home time is there My starting miles in the beginning where up to 2700 weekly Down time pay Detention pay Fleet Mgr. was professional with me There is always someone to talk to concerning a issue a driver has. Averitt is Professional and expect it's Drivers to be as well. This is a great company for beginning drivers to learn and when I say learn you will learn to back up into anything! Averitt is a Great company to work for.
Cons
Benefits got to be home to use them. Home time; never know which day unless you request in advance with your Fleet Mgr. which is 50/50 on the pro/con. Miles when I started was great but went from 2400 down to 1500 and lower a week. This is what caused me to leave even after talking to retention whom got me 2900 miles that week but then dropped well below 1800 afterwards. Started bringing home $500, $400, $300, $450 weekly checks; not worth being gone for 5 to 6 days a week. Detention pay; one time I had 12 hours @ $20hr of detention pay due to a shipper placing two additional pallets in my trailer that didn't belong. I would drive 24 miles to CAT get scaled come back; I did this 4 or 5 times until someone at the shipper decided to pull everything off and do a inventory of what was put on the trailer. I was only paid $100 but only after I threw a fit about running back and forth weighting the shippers mess-up all day for 14hrs. Word to the wise, if you go to work for Averitt and input you are loaded then there is no detention pay even after getting scaled at a CAT and having to do what I did. Regional drivers are low priority, they make the least amount of all Averitt drivers even when you end up pulling LTL loads as a Regional Driver. One of the things I should have paid attention to was orientation, when there was over 80 drivers there. Averitt has orientation every week from anywhere of 50 to 80 new drivers being hired every week. First Red Flag Hiring from within; good luck with that. Averitt's NEW minimum mileage pay: 400 mile minimum for short-haul loads picked up and delivered by driver is not what you might think; it only pays 400 miles if you pick up a live load under 400 miles and make the delivery yourself to the consignee; not picking up a load at one of the Service Centers then delivering it, which is what may drivers were having to do. Most of the loads are LTL loads which mean low miles, no 400 mile minimum; which is why I had to leave even at 0.42 CPM Shop worked on my tractor four times and claimed to have fix the APU each time and I would always get a call about idling the truck all the time which I told them I was not roasting in the cab waiting on a load or while I was sleeping. One time I brought my tractor in to have the windshield resealed due to a leak and they had the whole tractor tore down, they never fixed the leak. I didn't want to leave Averitt, I liked Averitt very much but my cons out weight my pros with Averitt. Hopefully your pros will out weight your cons if you go with Averitt. Everyone has totally different experiences in life and maybe yours will be totally different than mine were with Averitt.
